Event-Driven Contracts

Event-Driven
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Event-Driven skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Event-Driven over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 416 346 288
Rank change year-on-year -70 -58 +52
Contract jobs citing Event-Driven 170 401 829
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.40% 0.69% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.77% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 310 625
10th Percentile £424 £500 £475
25th Percentile £489 £553 £545
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% - +18.18%
75th Percentile £675 £750 £775
90th Percentile £775 £863 £863
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £563 £525
% change year-on-year -2.22% +7.14% +13.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 4
10th Percentile - - £58.69
25th Percentile £52.50 - £67.99
Median hourly rate £55.00 £35.00 £76.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.14% -53.95% -
75th Percentile £57.50 - £78.75
90th Percentile - £45.58 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £35.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Event-Driven is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,956 52,182 79,685
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.29% 89.83% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,793 36,175 55,967
10th Percentile £300 £325 £341
25th Percentile £413 £438 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,727 1,890
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

Event-Driven
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Event-Driven as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Event-Driven in the UK

Event-Driven
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Event-Driven.

Daily rate trend for Event-Driven in the UK

Event-Driven
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Event-Driven over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Event-Driven in the UK

Event-Driven
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Event-Driven.

Hourly rate trend for Event-Driven in the UK

Event-Driven
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Event-Driven within the UK over the 6 months to 7 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -66 149 £550 -18.22% 127
London -67 92 £600 -11.11% 66
Work from Home +14 66 £550 -21.43% 70
UK excluding London +61 54 £550 -2.22% 68
North of England +33 21 £550 +1.15% 27
South West +19 18 £550 -18.52% 1
North West +31 15 £510 -2.90% 18
South East +22 9 £475 -9.52% 11
Yorkshire +27 7 £593 -3.27% 6
Scotland +43 5 £550 +0.92% 7
North East - 3 £650 - 3
Midlands +28 2 £300 -40.00% 12
West Midlands +24 2 £300 -55.56% 6
East of England -6 2 £575 +9.00% 6
Wales +19 1 - - 1

Event-Driven
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (2.94%) Confluence
1 5 (2.94%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (1.76%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.18%) CMS
3 2 (1.18%) nginx
4 1 (0.59%) Apache
4 1 (0.59%) JBoss
4 1 (0.59%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.59%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (2.94%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (2.94%) Temenos T24
2 1 (0.59%) Markit EDM
2 1 (0.59%) Oracle FAH
2 1 (0.59%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.59%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 67 (39.41%) AWS
2 63 (37.06%) Azure
3 38 (22.35%) Serverless
4 31 (18.24%) GCP
5 27 (15.88%) AWS Lambda
6 19 (11.18%) Amazon S3
7 16 (9.41%) Azure Service Bus
7 16 (9.41%) Azure Stack
8 14 (8.24%) Microsoft Purview
9 12 (7.06%) GitHub
10 11 (6.47%) Amazon EC2
11 9 (5.29%) Amazon SQS
11 9 (5.29%) Azure DevOps
12 8 (4.71%) Azure Event Grid
12 8 (4.71%) PaaS
13 7 (4.12%) Azure AKS
13 7 (4.12%) Azure App Service
13 7 (4.12%) OpenShift
14 6 (3.53%) Adobe Analytics
14 6 (3.53%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.12%) AMQP
2 6 (3.53%) Network Security
3 2 (1.18%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (20.59%) NoSQL
2 22 (12.94%) Data Warehouse
3 20 (11.76%) Relational Database
4 19 (11.18%) MongoDB
5 16 (9.41%) Snowflake Schema
6 9 (5.29%) SQL Server
7 8 (4.71%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (4.12%) BigQuery
8 7 (4.12%) DynamoDB
8 7 (4.12%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (3.53%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (3.53%) InfluxDB
9 6 (3.53%) Power BI
10 5 (2.94%) Looker
10 5 (2.94%) OLAP
10 5 (2.94%) OLTP
10 5 (2.94%) Oracle Database
10 5 (2.94%) Oracle OLAP
10 5 (2.94%) RDBMS
10 5 (2.94%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 23 (13.53%) Git
2 20 (11.76%) Jenkins
3 11 (6.47%) Cucumber
3 11 (6.47%) JIRA
4 8 (4.71%) Cypress.io
5 5 (2.94%) GitLab
5 5 (2.94%) Postman
5 5 (2.94%) Selenium
6 4 (2.35%) CircleCI
7 3 (1.76%) PHPUnit
7 3 (1.76%) webpack
8 2 (1.18%) Gradle
8 2 (1.18%) Jaeger
8 2 (1.18%) JMeter
8 2 (1.18%) JUnit
8 2 (1.18%) Maven
8 2 (1.18%) Mocha
8 2 (1.18%) Mockito
8 2 (1.18%) Travis CI
9 1 (0.59%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 45 (26.47%) Finance
2 27 (15.88%) Banking
3 21 (12.35%) Public Sector
3 21 (12.35%) Social Skills
4 14 (8.24%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (7.65%) Retail
6 12 (7.06%) Investment Banking
7 8 (4.71%) Marketing
8 6 (3.53%) Advertising
9 5 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (2.35%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.76%) Corporate Banking
11 3 (1.76%) Retail Banking
12 2 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.59%) Back Office
13 1 (0.59%) Electronics
13 1 (0.59%) Front Office
13 1 (0.59%) Law
13 1 (0.59%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.59%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 61 (35.88%) Architect
2 45 (26.47%) Developer
3 21 (12.35%) Data Architect
4 16 (9.41%) Senior
4 16 (9.41%) Solutions Architect
5 13 (7.65%) Java Developer
6 12 (7.06%) Data Engineer
7 11 (6.47%) Lead
8 9 (5.29%) AWS Architect
8 9 (5.29%) DevOps Engineer
8 9 (5.29%) GCP Architect
9 8 (4.71%) Azure Engineer
10 7 (4.12%) .NET Developer
10 7 (4.12%) Senior Developer
10 7 (4.12%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 6 (3.53%) Software Engineer
11 6 (3.53%) UI Developer
12 5 (2.94%) Java Engineer
12 5 (2.94%) Lead Developer
12 5 (2.94%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (25.29%) Kafka
2 41 (24.12%) REST
3 30 (17.65%) .NET
4 25 (14.71%) JSON
5 24 (14.12%) React
6 22 (12.94%) Node.js
7 21 (12.35%) Spring
8 19 (11.18%) CSS
9 18 (10.59%) XML
10 17 (10.00%) .NET Core
10 17 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
10 17 (10.00%) Spring Boot
11 11 (6.47%) HTML
11 11 (6.47%) SOAP
12 10 (5.88%) GraphQL
12 10 (5.88%) Jest
13 9 (5.29%) jQuery
14 8 (4.71%) Web Services
15 7 (4.12%) Middleware
15 7 (4.12%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 20 (11.76%) Data Structures
1 20 (11.76%) Distributed Systems
2 19 (11.18%) Product Ownership
3 14 (8.24%) Reference Data
4 10 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (4.12%) Cloud Native
5 7 (4.12%) Distributed Computing
6 6 (3.53%) Linux Command Line
6 6 (3.53%) Management Information System
7 5 (2.94%) DataPower
7 5 (2.94%) Marketing Technology
8 4 (2.35%) Blockchain
8 4 (2.35%) Derivative
8 4 (2.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (1.76%) Fixed Income
9 3 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.76%) N-Tier
9 3 (1.76%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.18%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (1.18%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 12 (7.06%) Linux
2 6 (3.53%) Unix
3 2 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.18%) Windows
4 1 (0.59%) Android
4 1 (0.59%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (55.29%) Microservices
2 87 (51.18%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 80 (47.06%) Agile
4 44 (25.88%) DevOps
5 40 (23.53%) CI/CD
6 33 (19.41%) TDD
7 31 (18.24%) Analytics
8 25 (14.71%) Test Automation
9 23 (13.53%) Problem-Solving
9 23 (13.53%) Software Engineering
10 22 (12.94%) Data Modelling
11 21 (12.35%) Data Protection
12 18 (10.59%) Data Architecture
13 17 (10.00%) Machine Learning
14 16 (9.41%) Containerisation
14 16 (9.41%) Event-Driven Programming
15 15 (8.82%) Data Governance
15 15 (8.82%) Full Stack Development
16 14 (8.24%) GAP Analysis
16 14 (8.24%) OO
Programming Languages
1 57 (33.53%) Java
2 43 (25.29%) SQL
3 42 (24.71%) Python
4 32 (18.82%) JavaScript
5 27 (15.88%) C#
6 21 (12.35%) TypeScript
7 16 (9.41%) Go
8 13 (7.65%) Shell Script
9 7 (4.12%) Kotlin
9 7 (4.12%) PHP
9 7 (4.12%) PowerShell
10 5 (2.94%) Bicep
11 4 (2.35%) C
12 3 (1.76%) Ruby
13 2 (1.18%) Groovy
13 2 (1.18%) R
14 1 (0.59%) Gremlin
14 1 (0.59%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.59%) Scala
14 1 (0.59%) XPath
Qualifications
1 16 (9.41%) Security Cleared
2 12 (7.06%) Degree
3 10 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (4.12%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.53%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.35%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.76%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.18%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.59%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.59%) CISSP
9 1 (0.59%) GIAC
9 1 (0.59%) ISEB
9 1 (0.59%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (10.59%) Data Quality
2 11 (6.47%) QA
3 3 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.59%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.59%) COREP
5 1 (0.59%) IFRS
5 1 (0.59%) IFRS 17
5 1 (0.59%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.59%) NIST
System Software
1 28 (16.47%) Docker
2 1 (0.59%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 40 (23.53%) Kubernetes
2 20 (11.76%) Terraform
3 12 (7.06%) Grafana
3 12 (7.06%) Prometheus
4 6 (3.53%) Ansible
4 6 (3.53%) Progress Chef
5 5 (2.94%) Docker Swarm
6 4 (2.35%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (1.18%) Istio
7 2 (1.18%) Kibana
8 1 (0.59%) Ganglia
Vendors
1 23 (13.53%) Oracle
2 21 (12.35%) Google
3 19 (11.18%) Microsoft
4 13 (7.65%) IBM
5 7 (4.12%) Adobe
6 6 (3.53%) Ensighten
6 6 (3.53%) Omniture
6 6 (3.53%) SAP
6 6 (3.53%) Tealium
7 5 (2.94%) Atlassian
7 5 (2.94%) Confluent
7 5 (2.94%) Monetate
7 5 (2.94%) Optimizely
7 5 (2.94%) Salesforce
7 5 (2.94%) TSYS
8 3 (1.76%) Solace
8 3 (1.76%) Splunk
9 2 (1.18%) AppDynamics
9 2 (1.18%) CyberArk
9 2 (1.18%) Informatica